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Periodical · 09-15-2009, 03:02 PM

The epub v 2.1 works (kind of) in the Cool-er.
Loads well, with too-large a font at size 2, and size 1 is a bit small! The cover is there. You can't do anything from the table of contents text page, but you can use the Cool-er's bottom button on the left to navigate to the (working) table of contents.

I was trying to look up slyboots - an answer to last Saturday's prize cryptic crossword, and a word I'd not come across before.

So I went to S Index, which gave me a list of S words. But I couldn't do anything from there - again the Cool-er treats it like a text page, as far as I can tell.

Going back to the TOC, I kept on scrolling down past Z Index and on until I got to S (I think this is what Lbooker needs to do, too), selected that, and ended up at somewhere in the R section in the main dictionary!

From there, I noted the page number and went back to the bottom left button to "Go to Page", and navigated to a guessed page a few hundred ahead!
Then I scrolled down page by page until I found "slyboots" listed.

So it is a little laborious, but should certainly help my crosswording a little on the move, as someone else has said, in a pinch.

I am going to bookmark the start of every new letter, I think, and see if that helps.

I'll be grateful to have it, anyway.

Thank you, Nick, for all the hard work you've put into this.

09-15-2009, 03:02 PM	#26
Periodical Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: a purple Cool-er	The dictionary tried out on the Cool-er - tell Lbooker The epub v 2.1 works (kind of) in the Cool-er. Loads well, with too-large a font at size 2, and size 1 is a bit small! The cover is there. You can't do anything from the table of contents text page, but you can use the Cool-er's bottom button on the left to navigate to the (working) table of contents. I was trying to look up slyboots - an answer to last Saturday's prize cryptic crossword, and a word I'd not come across before. So I went to S Index, which gave me a list of S words. But I couldn't do anything from there - again the Cool-er treats it like a text page, as far as I can tell. Going back to the TOC, I kept on scrolling down past Z Index and on until I got to S (I think this is what Lbooker needs to do, too), selected that, and ended up at somewhere in the R section in the main dictionary! From there, I noted the page number and went back to the bottom left button to "Go to Page", and navigated to a guessed page a few hundred ahead! Then I scrolled down page by page until I found "slyboots" listed. So it is a little laborious, but should certainly help my crosswording a little on the move, as someone else has said, in a pinch. I am going to bookmark the start of every new letter, I think, and see if that helps. I'll be grateful to have it, anyway. Thank you, Nick, for all the hard work you've put into this.